The Universal Credit Bill becomes law. Here are the changes to disability benefits you need to know
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I hope housing benefits don't change before I move into supported living
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I was told to submit the form the day after my esa payment as it carries it on.. I then got a transitional payment a fortnight later.
Then I had the biographical phone call which was simple and quick then said I'd need go to jobcentre which I stressed about but was quick n nice lady but because the date of my jobcentre interview was after another fortnight I got another payment that I shouldn't have which was deducted from my first UC payment.
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Am I the only one who feels like the constant changes to Universal Credit and disability benefits are really hard to keep up with? Every time I think I’ve understood what’s happening, something new comes along—cuts, freezes, protections, delays—and it’s so overwhelming.
I know the government says some people are “protected,” but … It doesn’t feel very disability-friendly or accessible when information keeps shifting and you have to dig through pages of rules just to know where you stand.
I’d love to know—does anyone else feel the same? How are you coping with all the updates? Do you have any tips for keeping track of what applies to you?
Cherry 🍒
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I’m not coping very well with the whole thing. It just feels relentless and certainly isn’t helping me feel any better or more able to work. So, it’s not having the effect they want on me!
The one thing I have done to help me cope - my GP always reassures me when she sees me every month but her reassurance doesn’t last when I’m at home alone with all the scary stuff. So, I asked her to write down what she says to me so now I have a letter I can read when I get overwhelmed with it all.
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@Albus_Scope @Catherine21 Mr John Pring is an excellent disabled journalist. Respectfully, his news article you are quoting does not refer to Stephen Timms at all .
John Pring clearly states in the article (unaltered)- “the lead disability minister for the Treasury, Lord [Spencer] Livermore – who leads on welfare policy for the Treasury and was director of strategy for Gordon Brown when he was prime minister – failed to put in a single appearance.”
While every MSM smears disabled people as scroungers and drain on the welfare system, John is the only person who speaks truth and his relentless work in exposing several truths and pushing for ongoing inquiries of deaths of several claimants by DWP is commendable.
please let’s show some gratitude for his excellent journalism.Thank you 🙏
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It was actually the Tory plan to link PIP to receiving UC health element, that pushed me into applying for PIP which I was subsequently awarded.
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my wife has been contacted through UC in regards to the above. It is a voluntary option at the moment but i believe this is where it starts and eventually it will become compulsory.
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Well I hope they don't contact me as I am worse now than when I got awarded LCWRA, my mobility is worse because of neuropathy from robotic hysterectomy , I can't even sit for long and I doubt any job is available for someone to lie down all day (sounds bad) that 😂
Seriously I couldn't work and I am 62 next year . I just want to be left alone to enjoy a bit of life after an extremely traumatic four years . Cancer and I lost my house and now live in social housing , but I have to say it is better here as I don't have to worry about repossession .
So I just hope they leave me alone .
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It's voluntary so even if they contact me, I shall be ignoring them.
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I honestly don't see their logic. If it's voluntary, does it mean it wasn't voluntary before(mandatory?). If that's the case why voluntary now? And if it is voluntary why would they need highly paid staff to talk to people about looking for work? What have the lesser paid staff been doing all these years? Crosswords, ludo, playing snakes and ladders perhaps? What's voluntary about it anyway. Do they mean I can approach the jobcentre voluntary without them threatening me in some way or do they mean I can have the pleasure of going to the jobcentre, talking to one of their newly highly paid staff and being coerced into doing voluntary work? I imagine the employers are rubbing their hands at that. By the way, how does creating 1000 new highly paid jobs, save money. I remember them doing the same thing with atos employees.
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There has always been voluntary support on offer.
It's the Government repackaging existing help and spinning it as something new. To make headlines and make themselves look good.
Even the staff number boost might not stand much scrutiny- I'd bet these numbers used to exist, were cut, now back to previous levels!
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You can say it as many times as you need to @Catherine21 it's all voluntary. Some people will be very happy to be offered some support. It'll stop the old lines about people being "put on LCW and forgotten about."
It's giving people a chance to get help with looking for work if they want it. 😊
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The press release says:
The offer is voluntary and will be made to LCWRA claimants via their Universal Credit journal with tailored appointments taking place monthly.
Appointments taking place monthly if someone accepts the offer, not monthly Journal messages offering help is my interpretation.
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Hey folks, could we please keep this chat UC related? I'm happy to split off your convo about PIP if you still needed to ask more questions though?
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She wasn't so much sacked as moved to a different role @Catherine21 it happens quite a lot in politics. She's now the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology.
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Let's keep things civil please @Catherine21 there's no need for name calling. Remember the house rules.
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If you're in LCWRA and you accept the offer of help and go to the job centre it could go against you at your next WCA and you may be put into LCW, as LCWRA is supposed to mean you're not well enough to be going to the job centre and discussing work or what things you could do to move you closer to being able to work.
I would be very, very careful.
If the DWP starts contacting me once a month with these offers every time I get a text telling me to go onto my UC account is going to really, really scare me because for all I know it could be to tell me that I've got a WCA. I'm going to be feeling like I'm constantly living on a knife edge, this is just going to make my mental health worse.
It's bizarre that they're doing this as LCWRA means exactly what it means which is you're not well enough to go to the JC for work related activity, what next ballet classes for people in wheelchairs?
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people can and do work whilst getting lcwra
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